“…A great attention was given to Nubians at the time of the displacement; however, it was mostly ethnographic and keen on documenting the life of a community being displaced and a place about to vanish permanently (Fernea, 1963;Fernea and Kennedy, 1966;Fahim, 1973). Decades after, triggered by years of political turbulence since 2011, and the rise of questions of human rights, advocacy and minority rights in particular, the interest in the Nubian issues was revived by another strand of academic literature (Janmyr, 2017;Madbouly, 2021). Moreover, looking at Nubians in a context of diaspora seemed to have caught the attention of scholars interested in Nubian literature and nostalgia (Abbas, 2014;Agha, 2019), with a recent current of comparative studies that compares Nubians to other diasporic and indigenous populations (Haqqi, 2020;Maatouq, 2022).…”